Cells Unit Project
Due November 10 or 11
You are going to develop an analogy for a cell and how it works. After seeing ‘Battlefield Cell’
you are going to create your own comparison. The way the movie describes a virus invading as an army
of clones, mitochondria as charging stations, and cytoskeleton as a path for the legs to move motor
proteins along its march, YOU are going to describe a cell and its organelles as something else. You must
include ten parts. You should have a picture (I won’t grade on artistic skill) that shows your analogous
object and a written component explaining how each part is like the part in a real cell. Potential things
you can include in your cell include:
Cell/Plasma membrane (may even break down into fluid mosaic, proteins, etc.)
Cytoplasm
Nucleus
Ribososmes
Nucleolus
Golgi Apparatus
Endoplasmic Reticulum (smooth and/or rough)
DNA
Vesicle
Chromosomes
Cytoskeleton/Microtubles
Nuclear Membrane
Lysosome
PLANT ONLY: Chloroplast
Cell Wall
Chromatin
Mitochondria
Cilia OR Flagella (not both)
ANIMAL ONLY: Centriole
Cells Unit Project
Due November 10 or 11
You are going to develop an analogy for a cell and how it works. After seeing ‘Battlefield Cell’
you are going to create your own comparison. The way the movie describes a virus invading as an army
of clones, mitochondria as charging stations, and cytoskeleton as a path for the legs to move motor
proteins along its march, YOU are going to describe a cell and its organelles as something else. You must
include ten parts. You should have a picture (I won’t grade on artistic skill) that shows your analogous
object and a written component explaining how each part is like the part in a real cell. Potential things
you can include in your cell include:
Cell/Plasma membrane (may even break down into fluid mosaic, proteins, etc.)
Cytoplasm
Nucleus
Ribososmes
Nucleolus
Golgi Apparatus
Vesicle
Endoplasmic Reticulum (smooth and/or rough)
DNA
Cytoskeleton/Microtubles
Nuclear Membrane
Lysosome
PLANT ONLY: Chloroplast
Cell Wall
ANIMAL ONLY: Centriole
Chromosomes
Chromatin
Mitochondria
Cilia OR Flagella (not both)